Call and response

As you’ll recall, lame-duck Missouri guv Matt Blunt appealed to GOP voters last week on behalf of his guy Romney. Don’t waste your vote on Huckabee! You’ll just be helping McCain! And so forth.
Missouri Republicans, roused from slumber, responded thusly:

John McCain
194,273
33%

Mike Huckabee
185,592
31.5%

Mitt Romney
172,532
29.3%

Effective.

Republican robocalls

Our Missouri-based household is feeling the love from the GOP presidential candidates in the homestretch to Super Tuesday. Three robocalls on Friday, three on Saturday, and two today. The breakdown, if I recall correctly, is four for Mitt Romney, three for John McCain, and one for Ron Paul (!).
The amusing thing is that these robotic [...]

Matt Blunt impersonates Karl Rove, lamely

Now that scandal-plagued, lame-duck Missouri governor Matt Blunt has abandoned his own reelection campaign, he has plenty of spare time in which to tell state Republicans how to vote on Super Tuesday. Blunt has drawn upon his vast reservoir of political judgment and experience and hauled up a warning against voting for Mike Huckabee - [...]

Matt Blunt cuts, runs

“A great Shadow has departed,” said Gandalf, and then he laughed, and the sound was like music, or like water in a parched land…
Well, perhaps that verges on overkill. Still, it comes as an unexpected pleasure - the shock announcement that one of the most partisan and least popular governors in the nation, Missouri’s own [...]

Show Me State showing Matt Blunt the door?

While Matt Blunt has finally inched up into political sunlight for the first time in his tenure as MIssouri’s governor - 46% negative, 48% positive, for a whopping net job approval rating of +2 - the recent SurveyUSA poll pitting him against Missouri Attorney General Jay Nixon throws Blunt back into deep shade. As the [...]

Congratulations to the Blunts on new addition to the household

Via Roy Temple at Fired Up!: Time for a momentary pause in our justified anger towards the policies of Governor Matt Blunt, as his wife Melanie gave birth last night to a healthy baby boy, one William Branch Blunt. Both mother and child are reported to be doing well. There’s an article with a photo [...]